Some examples of the irregular brain activity include: staring into space for hours upon end, throwing uncontrollable tantrums, and showing no interest in others. In addition, another very well known stereotype of autism is the tendency for children to repeat certain activities over and over for no apparent purpose. Fine motor skills that are lost are most of the time never regained unless proper therapy is given. A child with autism has a lower attention span than that of "regular- kids and needs to be taught a certain exercise over and over again until his or her motor development is regained and used to the task. These children also do not have the common innate people skills that most others have, which lead to problems in the present and future with communication and interaction. .
However, if addressed through proper therapy, these problems can be taken care of and most of the skill can be regained. Writer Rabia Savas noted that, "Behavioral therapy seems to be the most effective Psychotherapy probably would not be very helpful - (3). Although time consuming and expensive, this therapy has and will work wonders for those in need. Therapy includes Sensory Integration treatment by occupational, speech, and physical therapists; other methods may include doses of certain hormones in order to improve various skills most autistic children lack. For example, secretin, a hormone produced in the intestine to help digestion, was injected into fifty-six children between the ages of four and ten. However, after this study, author and medical director of the Oldon Huff Center for Child Development in North Carolina Dr. Adrian Sandler stated, "The results of our study are clean and clear, there is no difference between placebo (another method of treatment) and secretin- (Yang 1).
David E. Early, of the Mercury News, summarizes how the symptoms of autism affect one's family while attempting to deal with and care for those in need:.
